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Trashing the oceans: More plastic than fish by 2050

February 4, 2016 By Blake Skylar

The increasing flow of plastic is positively choking the waters and their life: 90 percent of sea birds have consumed some form of plastic.

Explosions in Venezuelan capital, ultra-left blamed as tensions rise

January 28, 2016 By C.J. Atkins

Four small explosive devices were detonated, three at a shopping mall and another near the Venezuelan National Assembly building.

First Trinity Baptist becomes an oasis during Flint water crisis

January 21, 2016 By Patrick J. Foote

"It's very pricey and taxing to our community - it's like you're a prisoner to the situation: you pay your bills, but you don't get your water... It's awful."

Steelworkers, ExxonMobil, CalOSHA start talks on Torrance refinery explosion

January 21, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg

"Things are going fine" in the talks with ExxonMobil, "but it's a slow process."

New bombings raise tensions, repression in Turkey

January 15, 2016 By Emile Schepers

A suicide bombing, evidently carried out by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, killed ten German tourists in a historic square in downtown Istanbul, Turkey.